Appearance
Natalie Bauer-Lechner (1858-1921) (published 1923) Mahler, whose outward appearance gives so much cause for criticism, used to reply to reproaches about it: ‘I can’t live an aesthetic life; my personality and temperament are otherwise inclined. And if I weren’t what I am, I couldn’t write the symphonies that I do.’ Recently, coming to fetch me at […]